The GENERAL CONTEXT of such use is:
legitimacy: the fact of being legitimate.
1.a. the fact of being a legitimate child.2. of a government or the title of a sovereign: or principle. Now often, with respect to a sovereign's title, in a narrower sense: the fact of being derived by regular descent; occas. the principle of lineal succession to the throne, as a political doctrine.
b. transf. genuineness.
3. Gen. Conformity to rule or principle; lawfulness. In Logic, conformity to sound reasoning. See also:
a proposition/axiom
educational system legitimacy
'laissez-faire' habitus in society
language of authority
legitimating class relations
legitimate violence
legitimate physical violence
legitimate symbolic violence
legitimate use of physical violence
méconnaissance
medical 'selection' (an example)
misrecognition versus legitimacy
negative societal parameters
pedagogic justification
politics
power legitimacy
power symbolism
privilege
reality and the misconceptions of sociologists
ruling class
sociological inquiry into 'the hidden functions' (of education and the social order)
symbolic violence
the homology of violence
the negative dimension of society
the relative autonomy of the educational system
the ruling ideas
title
violence
ultimate truth
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